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Stanley Nkwocha @stanleynkwocha_

VP Shettima Welcomes Visa Inc's Pledge To Site Data Centre In Nigeria

Visa Inc. @Visa, an American multinational payment card services corporation, has updated Vice President Kashim Shettima on plans to site data centre infrastructure in Nigeria.

This is in addition to its investments of over $1 billion in the country, including a substantial technological partnership with MoniePoint to foster digital payment solutions, a $200 million investment in Interswitch, and a partnership with @thriveagric to empower smallholder farmers and enhance food security in Nigeria.

Visa's Regional President for Central, & Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA), Mr. Andrew Torre, disclosed this when he led a delegation of the company on a courtesy visit to Vice President Shettima at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Mr Torre said while Visa Inc. "has been making investments and will continue to make these investments in Nigeria", the plan to site the data centre infrastructure is aimed at bringing new technologies into the Nigerian market that would bolster the nation's growing digital economy.

According to him, partners like Hugo, and Samsung require some of Visa's technologies to launch mobile payment services for a more competitive and cost-effective market.

Responding, Vice President Shettima @officialSKSM assured the US-based corporation team that the patronage and partnership between Visa and the Nigerian government will continue to grow by leaps and bounds.

VP Shettima also applauded Visa for investing in ThriveAgriculture, noting that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT is quite passionate about repositioning the agriculture sector, which is one of the primes in the administration's 8-point agenda.

He said, "Nigeria is where the action is. Of the ten fintechs in Africa, about eight are in Nigeria, with Moniepoint as the newest addition. Agriculture is key to the 8-point agenda of the present administration. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really keen on repositioning the agriculture industry here, and we have to invest in technology, we have to invest in modernisation.

"If we must improve on agriculture, we must embrace modernity, improve agricultural prices, seeds, fertilization, and intermediate technology. ThriveAgriculture is a company that has a focus on food security, providing up-to-date data to our farmers. And be rest assured that the patronage, the partnership between the government of Nigeria and Visa will only grow by leaps and bounds."

The Nigerian Vice President urged Visa Inc. to also invest in the Outsource to Nigeria Initiative @otni_ng of the federal government to help facilitate access to finance for the creative sector to boost the nation's digital and creative economy.

Also on the Visa delegation were the Senior Vice President, Head of Western and Central Africa, Mr. Andrew Uaboi, and Vice President, Head of West Africa @VisaNigeria, Mr. Chidozie Arinze.

Stanley Nkwocha
Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media & Communications
(Office of The Vice President)
21st March, 2025

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Welcome development

ok

Great

Great

Cum be like rich aboki

Wake me up when the pledge turns to reality

I'll be their IT Technical Specialist

Nice development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwtMAi_44gI?si=4SL6t-QKmsGBy7LT

Everybody wants to associate with Tinubus govt. A competent leader attracts foreign investment as Tinubu is doing. Tinubu will end up being the best president Nigeria will have.

BlueStripper:
Nigeria will rise again to reclaim her spot in the global stage.

Reclaim? When were we ever on the global stage?

They are welcome 🤗🤗🤗.

Just a quick advise; in whatever they do,they should invest heavily on solar,to avoid adding up their operational cost with Diesel cost.

My one cent

this relegated vice president. they should meet seyi if they are serious

Nigeria is a huge market and has not yet derive 20% of her potentials.
Ethnicity and mistrust has not helped either , hopefully we will learn to be patriotic and work together to leave a country where future generations will be proud of.

This man still dey!

See as them dey like they say them love the people

Seyi Tinubu don relegate this baba o. Man has been AWOL in this government lately.

Oh Shettima, The Fmr Vice President of Nigeria

Not bad.

Partnerships like Visa’s support for ThriveAgriculture could enhance food security and economic growth.

So we still have a vice president

Ok

We need farming corporation?

Great news


God bless Nigeria 🙏

Max24:
Everybody wants to associate with Tinubus govt. A competent leader attracts foreign investment as Tinubu is doing. Tinubu will end up being the best president Nigeria will have.

Loud Ignorance, sycophancy and bootlicking at work!

Max24:
Everybody wants to associate with Tinubus govt. A competent leader attracts foreign investment as Tinubu is doing. Tinubu will end up being the best president Nigeria will have.

A competent looter is what you mean.

Lagos state budget was N43 billion 25 years ago and now it’s N3.4 trillion. The budget has grown 79 times over the quarter century from IGR squeezed out of the public and higher federal allocation received on behalf of the masses as well as loans to be repaid by all Lagosians.

How much improvement in basic services, amenities and utilities was achieved with this 79 times growth in budget, using Tinubu’s master plan? If it doesn’t match what Jakande did in just four years, should Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu not be in jail like Buhari did to Jakande in 1984?

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Why is Shettima holding that man's hand?